About Daniel
Daniel Neil is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, depression, and major life changes. He meets clients where they are and focuses on building practical coping skills. Sessions aim to leave people feeling heard and with clear next steps they can try between meetings.
Daniel emphasizes a collaborative, down-to-earth style. He blends attention to emotions, thoughts, and everyday routines to find what’s out of balance.
Background and approach
He favors techniques that help people notice unhelpful thinking and practice calmer responses in real life. In sessions he asks about immediate concerns, strengths, and short-term goals. Early meetings are used to set a basic plan and try a small change or exercise.
Clients can expect an open conversation rather than a lecture, and simple tools to practice between sessions. Over nine years of work as an LMHC, Daniel has supported people dealing with a wide range of issues. That includes abandonment, attachment challenges, adoption and foster care questions, aging and caregiver stress, body image, and coping with medical problems such as cancer.
He also addresses personality and relationship patterns such as avoidant or antisocial traits, commitment and communication problems, codependency, and aspects of kink and alternative sexual culture. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
How evidence-based tools translate to online care
Daniel often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approaches that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in daily life. CBT tends to involve short exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments that translate well to virtual sessions and between-session practice.He also incorporates mindfulness-based techniques that teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce anxious reactivity. Those practices can be guided in a live call or reinforced through short text reminders and brief exercises between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean trying small tools from different approaches and adjusting based on what feels most helpful.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, and ongoing contact between full sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, caregiving routine, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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